WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The ADEAGies
Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 William J.
Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation and Achievement (Gies Awards). The
Gies Awards, named after dental education pioneer William J. Gies,
Ph.D., honor individuals and organizations exemplifying dedication to
the highest standards of vision, innovation and achievement in dental
education, research and leadership. Johnson & Johnson Healthcare
Products, Division of McNEIL-PPC, Inc., is the premier sponsor.

“Each year, I am increasingly impressed with the innovation and progress
exhibited through the achievements of the William J. Gies Awards
winners,” says Richard W. Valachovic, D.M.D., M.P.H., President of the
ADEAGies Foundation and President and CEO of ADEA. “This awards program
represents the best in oral health and dental education, and it is an
honor to recognize the dental educators and academic institutions that
are making significant advances within the field.”

The Gies Awards are presented by the ADEAGies Foundation, the
philanthropic arm of ADEA. For more than 50 years, the ADEAGies
Foundation has enhanced the oral health of the public through programs
that support dental education, research, leadership and recognition.

Tickets for the celebration can be purchased online at www.adea.org
when registering for the 2014 ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition.
Sponsored tables are available. For more information, please contact
Trish Smith at 703-506-3272.

About The William J. Gies Foundation: The William J. Gies
(pronounced guys) Foundation was established in 1950 by
colleagues and admirers of Dr. Gies with seed funds raised by the
American College of Dentists. It was a private foundation and the first
U.S. foundation to support dental education and scholarship. In 2002, it
joined with the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) to form
ADEAGies Foundation, a public foundation.

About William J. Gies and the Gies Report: William Gies was a
Columbia University biochemistry professor and founder of the College of
Dental Medicine at Columbia University, where he was interested in
dental education, science, and clinical applications. In 1926, as part
of a series of studies on U.S. professional education funded by the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Dr. Gies published
a landmark report that established the importance of dentistry as a
healing science and an essential component of higher education in the
health professions. The Gies Report, Dental Education in the United
States and Canada, took five years to research and write. It
consists of 250 pages of text and more than 400 pages of appendices,
including lengthy descriptions and evaluations of the existing dental
schools, each of which Dr. Gies visited. Since the Gies Report, there
have been many other reports on dental education in the context of
health professions education. However, Dental Education in the
United States and Canada remains to this day the most relevant
survey of dental education and critical issues within the field.

About the American Dental Education Association:The
American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is The Voice of Dental
Education. Its members include all U.S. and Canadian dental schools and
many allied and advanced dental education programs, corporations, deans,
program directors, administrators, faculty and students, residents and
fellows. The mission of ADEA is to lead individuals and institutions of
the dental education community to address contemporary issues
influencing education, research and the delivery of oral health care for
the health of the public. ADEA’s activities encompass a wide range of
research, advocacy, faculty development, meetings and communications
like the esteemed Journal of Dental Education, as well as the
admissions services: ADEA AADSAS, ADEA PASS, ADEA DHCAS and ADEA CAAPID.
For more information, visit www.adea.org.